Well, that was disappointing! So much for a rousing end to the regular season, I guess when there is nothing on the line, there is no need to show up.<\/p>\n
First game, Team Russ has 5 runners, Team Juniors has 8, ….this is going to be painful! And the dearth of runners shows up in a lack of scoring. Team Russ set a glacial pace and the goalies come up big when called upon – end of the first\u00a0 0-0 tie. The TV ratings and resulting ad revenues are going to take a hit on this game. In the 2nd things didn’t get much better though Dirka and the JKOW did show up for Team Russ. Team Juniors scored 1 early and hung on, and on, until Team Russ responded late to end the period tied again 1-1. In the 3rd, Juniors were able to pop a couple, and after exchanging a couple of additional goals,\u00a0 a buzzer beating goal ended the game with Team Juniors winning 2nd place on the basis of a 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n
In the 2nd game Team Blair was in dire straits, Ian Gordon out for the season with a knee injury, a number of players watching the Jr A game in 6Nations and even more players just missing…. 4 runners vs a full Team Bill bench. To stave off an embarrassing forfeit with the accompanying onerous fines a quick deal was made to rent a couple of Team Bill’s players for this game only – shuffling team leader Bill and power attacker Andrew to Team Blair seemed generous but ….questionable.\u00a0 1st period was slow to get going but Team Bill started to get a few goals with Team Blair more or less keeping pace. The period ended Team Bill 3 – Team Blair 2.\u00a0 It can’t be said that Bill doesn’t play hard all the time – who cares if he was going to return to his original team next week for the playoffs, when given the opportunity, he laid a heavy check on (ex and future) teammate Eric and put him …DOWN! Now that’s focus and drive! But it was all for naught, the 3rd was all Team Bill (and a whole lot of Team Blair shots off the posts and crossbar!), Team Bill scored 5 and only allowed 2 to increase their season’s wins by 50% and doubling Team Blair’s loss total to 2. Final score Team Bill 10 – Team Blair 6. The message has been sent – see you next week!<\/p>\n
So….. the 2015 regular season is done and what have we got to show for it – 2015 regular season champions (Greasy Bucket of Used Balls Trophy\/Bucket\/Cup\/ Certificate), in a worst to first run, Team Blair, with a convincing season run, only 2 losses, dominant (at times) scoring, surprisingly good defense (at times). Team Bill with the dreaded participant certificate (Roll of Crumpled Up, Used Tape (3M) Participant Ribbon\/Certificate), a substantial drop from their strong 2nd place finish last year. Overall, goals per game dropped by nearly 4 from\u00a0 just over 19 per game to 15.6. I credit that to stronger goaltending but I may be somewhat biased.<\/p>\n
In any case, on to the playoffs! Next week, Wednesday August 19, 2015 Kinsmen Arena<\/p>\n
Team Juniors (Gord)\u00a0 vs.\u00a0 Team Russ (Guntis)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8:00pm – 9:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Team Blair (Gord)\u00a0 vs.\u00a0 Team Bill (Trevor)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9:00pm – 10:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n G2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that was disappointing! So much for a rousing end to the regular season, I guess when there is nothing on the line, there is no need to show up. First game, Team Russ has 5 runners, Team Juniors has 8, ….this is going to be painful! And the dearth of runners shows up in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}